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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jantu in Chapter 3?

2. How does Jantu comfort Dara at the end of Chapter 8?

3. Who had ruled Cambodia when Dara was two- or three-years-old?

4. During the last two hundred years whose colonialism had Cambodia survived?

5. What is the name of the lake by Dara's old village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are of the stories Jantu tells to Dara?

2. Who is Jantu?

3. What does Jantu make for Dara that makes her feel better after Chnay destroys a pair of dolls Jantu made?

4. What were some of the things that happened to the Cambodian people under the Khmer Rouge?

5. What team does Sarun join and why?

6. What does Jantu do when Dara tells her she cannot find her way back to the camp?

7. What does Jantu make?

8. Give a short description of the happier days Dara remembered when she was two or three?

9. Cambodia's history dated back how many years to the building of what?

10. What is the lunch truck?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Describe the significance of mango trees to Jantu's and Dara's fathers?

2. Why did the Khmer Serei resistance at the border have to recruit more men and how did that affect Dara's family?

3. What did Jantu mean when she told Dara "Things that can break are not worth taking" when they were fleeing the bombs?

4. Choose two of the above topics and write on them.

Essay Topic 2

1. What was the lunch truck?

2. Describe the various things Sarun, Mother, Nea and Dara did to build a shelter.

3. Describe what Dara saw when she went with Grandpa Kem and Sarun to get the rice.

4. Choose two of the above topics to write about.

Essay Topic 3

1. Describe the first night at Nong Chan. What made Dara feel she had come home?

2. Describe Jantu and Dara's and her encounter at the well. What did they talk about?

3. Describe Jantu's baby brother. What did they call him and what was his real name?

4. Write on two of the three topics.

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